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Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas (2023)
Journal Article
Buser, M., Brännlund, E., Holt, N. J., Leeson, L., & Mytton, J. (2024). Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas. Arts and Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, 16(1), 32-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2023.2168710

Background: This paper details findings from an arts intervention project that explored the role and potential for arts activities and art therapy to support the mental health and wellbeing of children living in Kashmir, an area of long-term confli... Read More about Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas.

Experience of living near a highway in Nepal: Community perceptions of road dangers in Makwanpur district (2022)
Journal Article
Joshi, E., Gautam, P., Khadka, A., Pilkington, P., Parkin, J., Joshi, S. K., & Mytton, J. (2022). Experience of living near a highway in Nepal: Community perceptions of road dangers in Makwanpur district. Journal of Transport and Health, 24, Article 101337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2022.101337

Introduction: Road traffic injuries are a major but neglected global challenge. There are high and rising rates of road traffic injuries in Nepal. Most of the studies reporting these injuries in Nepal have used quantitative methods to describe the in... Read More about Experience of living near a highway in Nepal: Community perceptions of road dangers in Makwanpur district.

Views of professional stakeholders on readiness for a safe road system in Nepal; an exploratory qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Pandey, B., Khadka, A., Joshi, E., Joshi, S. K., Parkin, J., Pilkington, P., & Mytton, J. (2022). Views of professional stakeholders on readiness for a safe road system in Nepal; an exploratory qualitative study. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 29(2), 217-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2021.1983845

Road traffic injuries in Nepal are increasing despite being largely preventable. Little evidence exists regarding the barriers and facilitators to a safer road system. This study aimed to explore the perspectives of professionals whose jobs had the p... Read More about Views of professional stakeholders on readiness for a safe road system in Nepal; an exploratory qualitative study.

Road safety and heavy goods vehicle driving in LMICs: Qualitative evidence from Nepal (2021)
Journal Article
Khadka, A., Gautam, P., Joshi, E., Pilkington, P., Parkin, J., Joshi, S. K., & Mytton, J. (2021). Road safety and heavy goods vehicle driving in LMICs: Qualitative evidence from Nepal. Journal of Transport and Health, 23, Article 101247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2021.101247

Background: Heavy goods vehicle drivers are an influential driving population in Nepal, with over 90% of goods in the country are transported by road. Due to the time spent on the road, drivers have long periods of exposure to the risk of crash invol... Read More about Road safety and heavy goods vehicle driving in LMICs: Qualitative evidence from Nepal.

Adolescent's perception of road risk on their routes to school in Makwanpur, Nepal; a qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Gautam, P., Mytton, J. A., Joshi, S. K., & Pilkington, P. (2021). Adolescent's perception of road risk on their routes to school in Makwanpur, Nepal; a qualitative study. Journal of Transport and Health, 20, Article 101009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2021.101009

Background: Busy and poor road infrastructure along routes to school poses high risk of traffic injury for children and adolescents. Ensuring every young person's safe journey to and from school is fundamental to achieving reductions in road injuries... Read More about Adolescent's perception of road risk on their routes to school in Makwanpur, Nepal; a qualitative study.

Establishing injury surveillance in emergency departments in Nepal: Protocol for mixed methods prospective study (2020)
Journal Article
Magnus, D., Bhatta, S., Mytton, J., Joshi, E., Bird, E. L., Bhatta, S., …Joshi, S. K. (2020). Establishing injury surveillance in emergency departments in Nepal: Protocol for mixed methods prospective study. BMC Health Services Research, 20, Article 433. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05280-9

Background: Globally, injuries cause more than 5 million deaths annually, a similar number to those from HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria combined. In people aged between 5 and 44 years of age trauma is the leading cause of death and disability and the... Read More about Establishing injury surveillance in emergency departments in Nepal: Protocol for mixed methods prospective study.

Enabling data linkage to maximise the value of public health research data (2015)
Report
Green, E., Ritchie, F., Mytton, J., Webber, D. J., Deave, T., Montgomery, A., …Chowdhury, S. (2015). Enabling data linkage to maximise the value of public health research data

This project was commissioned by The Wellcome Trust on behalf of the Public Health Research Data Forum. The project aimed to identify the gains to public health research from linking existing data sources, the opportunities in and barriers to such da... Read More about Enabling data linkage to maximise the value of public health research data.

Delivering community based child injury prevention in Nepal: A feasibility study (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Pant, P. R., Ellis, M., Deave, T., & Mytton, J. (2014, February). Delivering community based child injury prevention in Nepal: A feasibility study. Poster presented at South West Public Health Scientific Conference, The Winter Gardens, Weston-Super-Mare

Aim: To develop and evaluate an educational programme of child injury prevention and first-aid for dissemination through women’s groups in a rural district of Nepal and determine the feasibility of conducting a cluster randomised controlled trial of... Read More about Delivering community based child injury prevention in Nepal: A feasibility study.

Unintentional injuries in school-aged children and adolescents: Lessons from a systematic review of cohort studies (2009)
Journal Article
Mytton, J., Towner, E., Brussoni, M., & Gray, S. (2009). Unintentional injuries in school-aged children and adolescents: Lessons from a systematic review of cohort studies. Injury Prevention, 15(2), 111-124. https://doi.org/10.1136/ip.2008.019471

Objectives: To critically synthesise current knowledge of the patterns of injuries and risk factors for injury in school-aged children, to summarise the evidence and support effective child injury prevention initiatives. Design: Systematic review. Se... Read More about Unintentional injuries in school-aged children and adolescents: Lessons from a systematic review of cohort studies.

Injuries in school aged children (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Mytton, J. (2009, April). Injuries in school aged children. Poster presented at Institute of Sustainability, Health and the Environment Launch Conference, UWE, Bristol

School-based secondary prevention programmes for preventing violence (2009)
Journal Article
Taylor, R. S., DiGuiseppi, C., Gough, D., Logan, S., & Mytton, J. (2009). School-based secondary prevention programmes for preventing violence. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004606.pub2

Background: Early aggressive behaviour is a risk factor for later violence and criminal behaviour. Despite over 20 years of violence prevention interventions being delivered in the school setting, questions remain regarding the effectiveness of diffe... Read More about School-based secondary prevention programmes for preventing violence.